℗ 1958 2016 Countdown Media, a division of BMG Rights Management (US)
| Released | October 6, 2017 |
| Duration | 58m 45s |
| Record Label | Concert-Disc |
| Genre | Classical |
Bartók: String Quartets No. 1 & No. 2 (Remastered from the Original Concert-Disc Master Tapes)
Fine Arts Quartet
Available in MQA and 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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String Quartet No. 1, Sz. 40
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1.1
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I. Lento
Béla Bartók; Fine Arts Quartet |
9:15 | |||
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1.2
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II. Allegretto
Béla Bartók; Fine Arts Quartet |
8:54 | |||
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1.3
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III. Introduzione. Allegro vivace
Béla Bartók; Fine Arts Quartet |
12:27 | |||
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String Quartet No. 2, Sz. 67
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1.4
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I. Moderato
Béla Bartók; Fine Arts Quartet |
10:52 | |||
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1.5
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II. Allegro molto capriccioso
Béla Bartók; Fine Arts Quartet |
8:15 | |||
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1.6
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III. Lento
Béla Bartók; Fine Arts Quartet |
9:02 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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"One of the gold-plated names in chamber music."
- Washington Post
Countdown Media presents this legacy recording of the Fine Arts Quartet performing the String Quartets No. 1 & No. 2 from the great Hungarian master-composer, Béla Bartók.
The Fine Arts Quartet was founded in 1946, although the group's members had actually begun working together as early as 1939 while playing in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Quartet's first performance took place in 1940 with Leonard Sorkin, first violinist, Ben Senescu, second violinist, Sheppard Lehnhoff, violist, and George Sopkin, cellist. Military service in World War II intervened, however, and it was not until 1946, now with the new second violinist Joseph Stepansky, that the Quartet began to rehearse and perform regularly.
The Quartet released an astonishing quantity of works (over 100) during its first 30 years of existence, including cycles of chamber music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Now, Countdown Media has catalogued and collected the masters of these incredible recordings, remastering and rereleasing them in stunning modern clarity for new listeners.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Concert-Disc Studio Masters
Tracks 1-6 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-6 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.82 -3.80 to -0.44 | -23.05 -26.67 to -20.70 | -18.33 -20.80 to -16.30 | 13 11 to 13 | |
| 1 | I. Lento | -3.80 | -25.01 | -20.5 | 12 |
| 2 | II. Allegretto | -1.44 | -23.19 | -18.5 | 13 |
| 3 | III. Introduzione. Allegro vivace | -0.50 | -21.35 | -17.0 | 13 |
| 4 | I. Moderato | -1.59 | -21.39 | -16.9 | 11 |
| 5 | II. Allegro molto capriccioso | -0.44 | -20.70 | -16.3 | 13 |
| 6 | III. Lento | -3.13 | -26.67 | -20.8 | 13 |